It’s no secret that there’s a growing focus on climate change and the role we all play in it. With record-high temperatures being recorded across land and sea, and carbon dioxide levels from human activities increasing at an exponential rate, it’s never been more important to take action and search for eco-friendly solutions before it’s too late.
We acknowledge that as an organisation, we have an impact on the environment both directly, through our business activities, and indirectly, through our supply chain and customers. DPL’s strategy is to think long term – to be able to meet the needs of people today without compromising the needs of future generations. As an organisation, DPL have a responsibility like “others” to comply with legislation, and we will continually implement improvements and new initiatives to reduce our environmental impacts of our business and operate in an environmentally responsible approach.
As part of our ongoing commitment to both measuring and reducing our carbon footprint, we have teamed up with our long-term supply partner, Morgan Sindall, working with them and the industry Sustainability Carbon Calculator Tool to measure our current carbon footprint, identifying and driving change which is a cornerstone of our commitment to the reduction of our carbon emissions.
We continue to work with our client, Morgan Sindall, to both track and implement strategic changes to enable the reduction of our carbon usage and, with Morgan Sindall’s ongoing support, working with our wider supply chain, supporting them to use the Sustainability Carbon Calculator Tool so that they can begin their journey to both measure and achieve Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon neutrality in line with UK targets.
At DPL, we fully commited to following UK Government guidelines to work toward being carbon neutral by 2050.
At DPL, we have identified the areas within the business that create the most waste and therefore have formal objectives in place for their reduction over time. The focus of our reductions are Vehicle Emissions, Water, Electricity, Waste, and Recycling.
We engage with our employees to update and expand their knowledge of the groups carbon emissions to enable year on year progress in sustainability.
We understand that communication is vital for change so we have created 6 quantifiable decabonisation commitments for 2024
Lower our direct business vehicle milage by introducing crew busses and encouraging vehicle sharing to reduce the number of physical miles covered.
Invest in further renewable energy (PV panels) across the group.
Improving carbon awareness and knowledge across the group by completing learning sessions.
Incentivise and encourage the use of lower carbon omitting vehicles for site support staff.
Continue to track, report and monitor our carbon usage.
Encourage our supply chain to report their carbon emmissions.
Our Environmental Policy and Action Plan describes how we will achieve our aim and objectives we strive for. Our Environmental policy applies to all of our operations including Management, Office Services and Site Operations.
DPL Group has overall responsibility for ensuring that sufficient resources are made available to enable the business to achieve its environmental objectives and targets, and that the policy is implemented by all our staff.
Across our broad spectrum of operations we undertake, DPL have a formal approach to environmental management through our ISO:14001 accreditation. Our commitment to Environmental issues can be demonstrated by our certified ISO14001 Environmental Management System which helps achieve improvement in overall environmental performance in the business activities of the organisation.
ISO:14001 accreditation enables us to focus our environmental approach and seek continuous improvements through the works we undertake.
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